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At SIHH 2014, Audemars Piguet introduced a big bunch of new watches in the Royal Oak offshore family. The new Audemars Piguet Royal Oak Offshore functions on calibre 2912. It comes in 2 variants; blue dial in Platinum case and black dial in 18-carat pink gold.
This sophisticated chronograph with its incisive design features a wealth of opulent detailing. The dial is coloured evenly to highlight openwork visible at 6, 9 and 12 o’clock. This is what sets Royal Oak Offshore 2014 Tourbillon apart from other members of royal Oak family. At 3 o’Clock is a 30 minute counter. Hands are made with white gold in the blue dial watch… and with pink Gold, in the black dial watch. Both use arabic numerals in silver tone to represent hours.
The Royal Oak Offshore 2014 Tourbillon uses one of the purest forms of Platinum to construct watch case. The new Audemars Piguet watch comes in 950 Platinum or 18 carat pink Gold case. A forged carbon bezel in black, sits firm on case. On the side are screw locked crown and pushpieces. Royal Oak Offshore 2014 Tourbillon functions when wound with hand. It can give 237 hours of power reserve.
Royal Oak offshore 2014 Tourbillon chronograph in Platinum is water resistant to 100 meters and pink Gold version is water resistant to only 20 meters. Blue rubber strap and hand stitched crocodile leather strap are used in the two versions.
Royal Oak offshore 2014 Tourbillon chronograph is made in Platinum for the first time by Audemars Piguet. LuxuryVolt will bring you the price of both versions, very soon.
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